Examination of the state budgets shows that the so called "doomsday" budget totals $35.3 billion, down from a proposed budget for next year of $35.8 billion. So "doomsday" means the government will have to reduce its proposed budget by 1.4 percent or the roof will cave in. And take note of the fact that the expected spending level for the state this year is $34.8 billion! So the dire budget predictions hinge on the state having to live with more money in the upcoming fiscal year than they had available this year!

This is a high class problem. Whoopee, we would all love to have that problem, especially those without jobs, those living on a fixed income, and those hanging on to their jobs with the same pay as last year.

And the proposed solution I have heard is to raise taxes on the "rich," however that is defined.

I have another idea. Why not wait until the economy recovers and tax revenues rise naturally to pay for the $512 million proposed increase above the "doomsday" budget? Or maybe we could call upon our media mavens to stop using incendiary language to describe a relative drop in the bucket!

When Gov. Larry Hogan introduced his budget, he proclaimed it to be "structurally balanced" now and forever more and free of the kinds of gimmickry governors of both parties have relied on in the past. No more robbing Peter to pay Paul, he promised. Now Democrats are gleefully pointing out...

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller told some reporters this week what most State House observers have long suspected — we should not expect some sweeping reduction in taxes during the upcoming legislative session. He also produced a spirited defense of the tax increases approved...

While I applaud the hard work on the state budget put in by House Appropriations Committee Chair Del. Maggie McIntosh and others, I am a little alarmed at their consistent kowtowing to the unions and their annual demands for increased funds despite reports of irresponsible spending.

I wonder where the rulers in the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates are going to get the money to fund what Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller described as the Democratic agenda ("Senate panel rewrites Hogan's charter school law," March 26)? I guess they will do what they do every...

I am so sick of the whining and belly aching of Maryland's tax and spend Democrats who, ad nauseam, continue to insist that we need more money for education, infrastructure, clean up of the Chesapeake Bay, giveaway programs, etc. I have never seen an accounting of where Maryland's proceeds go...